Clothes bar



Den 1931- c. R. HENDRICKSON 1,835,869

CLOTHES BAR Filed May 51, 1930 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 8, 1931 i UNITED STATES GASIMIR R. HENDRICKSON, 01E NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA CLOTHES BAR Application filed. May 31,

This invention relates to clothes hangers especially adapted for use in the kitchen, laundry, sewing room and other places where economy of space is desirable, an object being to provide a hanger which may be folded flat against the wall when not in use, and may be extended to accommodate a number of articles.

To this end, the invention includes a supporting frame having spaced parallel bars whose ends are connected by pivotally mounted transversely rectangular arms, with the pivotal mounting of the arms at one end of the bars offset with respect to the arms at the other ends, whereby said arms at one end of the frame may be folded flush between the bars, and the other arms folded flat against the first mentioned arms to provide a compactly foldable device which, when extended,

will accommodate a large number of articles in such a manner that the articles will hang straight. This is especially desirable when the hanger is used for drying clothes.

lVith the above and other objects in View, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illus trated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the invention with the hanger arms folded inward.

Fi ure 2 is a top edge view of the same.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 with the hanger arms extended.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional View with the parts .in the position shown in Figure 3, the dotted lines showing one of the arms partly folded. v I

Figure 5 is a front elevation with the arms extended and shown in section.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corre sponding parts,'the reference character 10 indicates a pair of bars which are arranged in spaced parallel relation and which provide a portion of a hanger frame adapted to be secured to a suitable support. For this purpose, the bars 10 are provided with openings 11 for the passage of attaching devices.

1930. Serial No. 458,386.

The ends of the frame are formed bythe inner ends of hanger bars. These bars are cross-sectionallyrectangular and are of the 10 by means ofa pivot bolt 13. These arms 12 may thus be folded flush between the bars 10, or may be extended for use. i

' Secured to the bars 10 at the opposite end of the frame are blocks 14; These blocks are secured to the outer faces of the bars 10 and provide bearing blocks for a pivot bolt 15, upon which is pivotally mounted the innerends of hanger arms 16. These arms 16 may be folded flat against the arms 12 and will provide a compactly folded device, as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings. t

The device when folded will occupy a position flat against a wall or other support, and one or more of the arms at either end of the device may be readily extended for use, The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction andthe'right is here in reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention what is claimed is: V

A clothes hanger comprising upper an lower bars, a bolt connecting the bars together at one end, blocks applied to the sides of the bars at their opposite-end, a bolt connecting said blocks together, a group of hanger arms pivoted upon each of said bolts,

the arrangement being such that the hanger arms which are pivoted between the blocks may lie flat against the hanger arms which are pivoted between the upper and lower bars when the hanger arms are in parallel {)elation with respect to the upper and lower ars.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CASIMIR R. HENDRIOKSON. 

